Contractor contributions to the Republican National Committee

A party committee on a small slice of a thick title

Contractor is a thick occupation key at $30,356,058. Only 8.2% landed on the RNC. $27,861,492 went to other federal committees, including candidate committees and other party accounts that received the same string.

25,395 receipts at mean $98 is a high-count, modest-check pattern. Repeat itemizations can raise the count. Unique donors are unpublished.

Links: Contractor occupation hub, RNC committee page, All occupations, All FEC ties. Construction (the occupation string) to WinRed is a sibling generic-trade join, not a subset.

Keep Contractor → RNC (C00003418): $2,494,566 in 25,395 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties indexes other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

CONTRACTOR as typed

The occupation-wide total is $30,356,058. General contractor, electrical contractor, and independent contractor can exist as other strings. They are not inside $30,356,058 unless stored as CONTRACTOR. Independent-contractor tax status is not an FEC field.

A filer can list Contractor and never appear in $2,494,566. A filer can list Construction on C00003418 and sit outside this occupation slice.

Quote Contractor for the occupation-wide $30,356,058 and quote REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (C00003418) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $2,494,566 across 25,395 itemized receipts, 8.2% of the occupation book, mean $98. Remainder $27,861,492 (91.8%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $2,494,566 to $30,356,058. Do not treat 25,395 as unique donors.

C00003418 as the RNC

REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE received $2,494,566 from this occupation key. That is not the RNC’s total from all occupations. Other titles on C00003418 sit outside the join.

Independent expenditures are excluded. State party committees are other FEC IDs. Cycle year is not in the packet. Cite FEC.gov for the live committee file.

Amended Schedule A filings move $2,494,566 and $30,356,058. Rewrite only the sentence whose source moved. This /ties/ page is a join snapshot, not a substitute for the occupation hub or the committee file on FEC.gov. Coverage stops at itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and recipient committee. Unitemized gifts never enter either integer.

What 8.2 percent does not prove

8.2% is the RNC’s share of Contractor itemized dollars, not the share of contractors who give to the RNC, and not a partisan score for a trade. Inverting the percentage needs the RNC’s all-occupation total, which is not here.

Do not add Construction to WinRed into this total. Unlike occupation strings and unlike committee IDs. Motive is not a field.

Keep Contractor → RNC (C00003418): $2,494,566 in 25,395 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties indexes other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

Citation

FEC.gov: occupation Contractor $30,356,058; Contractor to C00003418 $2,494,566 in 25,395 contributions; mean $98. Not independent expenditures.

All FEC ties indexes sibling pages. Do not add the two dollar totals. Later bulk files override this snapshot.

Quote Contractor for the occupation-wide $30,356,058 and quote REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE (C00003418) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $2,494,566 across 25,395 itemized receipts, 8.2% of the occupation book, mean $98. Remainder $27,861,492 (91.8%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $2,494,566 to $30,356,058. Do not treat 25,395 as unique donors.

Questions

How much did Contractor filers give to the RNC?

$2,494,566 in 25,395 itemized contributions to C00003418, 8.2% of Contractor’s $30,356,058 occupation total. Mean $98 is arithmetic. Unique donors are unpublished. Independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Is this the same as Construction money to WinRed?

No. Construction is a different occupation key and WinRed is a different committee. This join is Contractor to C00003418 only. Adding the two would mix unlike strings and unlike IDs. Use each /ties/ page separately. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Does independent contractor count here?

Only if the occupation line stored Contractor. Independent contractor can exist as another key. This page does not recode tax-status phrases. Use All occupations to compare neighboring strings. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Is $2.5 million the RNC’s total fundraising?

No. $2,494,566 is the Contractor occupation slice only. Other occupations on C00003418 sit on the committee overlay. State parties and independent expenditures sit outside this join. The live FEC committee file is the RNC-wide view. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.